Subject: split adding zeroes to suffix

From: thomas kaeding <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 05:18:40 -0400

This has happened twice to me, for two different files,
with the same size. This file is called "20170528".

-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 4700176384 May 28 16:00 20170528

split -b 47100000 -d 20170528 20170528.

gives these files:

-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:16 20170528.00
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:16 20170528.01
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:16 20170528.02
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.03
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.04
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.05
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.06
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.07
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.08
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.09
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.10
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.11
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.12
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.13
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.14
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.15
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.16
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.17
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.18
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.19
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.20
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.21
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.22
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.23
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.24
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.25
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.26
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.27
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.28
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.29
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.30
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.31
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.32
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.33
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.34
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.35
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.36
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.37
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.38
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.39
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.40
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.41
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.42
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.43
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.44
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.45
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.46
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.47
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:17 20170528.48
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.49
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.50
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.51
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.52
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.53
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.54
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.55
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.56
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.57
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.58
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.59
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.60
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.61
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.62
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.63
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.64
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.65
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.66
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.67
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.68
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.69
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.70
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.71
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.72
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.73
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.74
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.75
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.76
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.77
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.78
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.79
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.80
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.81
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.82
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.83
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.84
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.85
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.86
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.87
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.88
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.89
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.9000
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.9001
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.9002
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.9003
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.9004
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.9005
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.9006
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.9007
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 47100000 May 28 16:18 20170528.9008
-rw-r--r-- 1 kaeding kaeding 37276384 May 28 16:18 20170528.9009

As you can see, the last 10 have extra zeroes in the suffix.

I have coreutils 8.22.

-- 
Thomas Kaeding

my public key: http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x81B0FCA32599BE6F